Meta Acquires AI Startup Manus for Over 2 Billion Dollars

Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus concluded a transformative year for Chinese technology as U.S. regulators investigated the 2 billion dollar deal.Mark Zuckerberg planned to integrate the autonomous agentic technology into WhatsApp to transform the platform into a multi-functional tool similar to WeChat.This expansion followed Meta's recent 14 billion dollar purchase of Scale AI and coincided with the rise of Chinese models like DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen.